Sven Eriksson Good Quotations

I am happy with the overall balance of the squad. I hope they all stay fit. If they do we will have a very very good team.

He wins everything up in the air and for such a tall man, he has a very good touch on the floor

He hasn't had a lucky season, I must say so it's a pity. He is almost for sure out of the rest of tournament, but the good thing is he will not miss preseason and doesn't require an operation.

He's a big target man, good header, and he will give Michael many chances to score. I'm sure about that.

He's a good player coming back from an injury. He can rejoin the team for the World Cup.

We are meeting one of the best teams in the world. It's important for our confidence that we do well in this game and important for the England fans as well. If they see we can play good football against Argentina it gives us more hope for next summer.

We all have knives to our necks, if we want to play in the World Cup. I'm sure they and we will respond in a very positive way. I could not even dream of not qualifying for the World Cup. We have to win those two games. I have no doubts that the players are good enough.

As long as it makes Michael Owen happy then it is good news for England. Newcastle is a great club and he will get to play a lot.

As long as it makes Michael Owen happy it is good for me and England. It is a great club and he will play more regularly than he did at Real Madrid and he is happy.

They had some great chances in the first half and David James saved us with two or three very, very good saves.

It's a big blow, but we still have a very good team and a chance to do OK. When you pick, you pick a squad, and you have to have a plan B.

It's a great partnership. Michael Owen will score goals for them and it's great that he can play together with Shearer, ... He's a big target man, good header, and he will give Michael many chances to score. I'm sure about that.

It's the World Cup so you know you have to meet some very good teams. Holland, Portugal, Sweden and the Czech Republic are all good teams.

It's good to have these sort of problems.

It was not a good tackle and cost him one more yellow card. But if I have something to say to Beckham I will do it to him, not to you.

It's very good because if you remember 3 1/2 years ago at the last World Cup, every second half we never scored a goal in five games. Now we are scoring goals in the second half. It gives confidence, a winning mentality.

It was good to see some new players on the pitch and of course you have to evaluate them for the future.

I hope we can be very aggressive anyhow. Start early sometimes and wait sometimes because the heat. It's less humid in Portugal than it was in Japan. It's a big difference. The weather is good and it's not that humid so we will handle it I'm sure.

I know that we can play much better. They went out and did a job. We were brilliant sometimes and created good chances in the first half. They were brilliant in the second half defending. Austria had no good chances to score.

T he latest is that it shouldn't be any problem at all and that's good news.